{"product_id":"mamaseko-9781496219602","title":"mamaseko","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed after the poet’s mother, \u003ci\u003e‘mamaseko\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of introspective lyrics and other poems dealing with the intersections of blood relationships and related identities. Thabile Makue questions what it means to be beings of blood—to relate by blood, to live by blood. In her poems Makue looks for traces of shared trauma and pain and asserts that wounds of the blood are healed by the same.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The author’s focus on blood as both the root and the salve for violence is an ingenious metaphor employed throughout the book under numerous guises.”—Veronica Schorr, \u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eli teboho    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e mali\u003cbr\u003e maseko    \u003cbr\u003e giving birth to my mother    \u003cbr\u003e unborn    \u003cbr\u003e inside    \u003cbr\u003e outside    \u003cbr\u003e the bondage    \u003cbr\u003e the daughter’s inheritance    \u003cbr\u003e her mother’s loss    \u003cbr\u003e the children’s right    \u003cbr\u003e giving birth to my father    \u003cbr\u003e grandmother’s womb    \u003cbr\u003e blood crowing    \u003cbr\u003e uncreation    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘mele\u003cbr\u003e and these are eyes    \u003cbr\u003e and these are lips    \u003cbr\u003e and this is nose    \u003cbr\u003e and this is tongue    \u003cbr\u003e and these are ears    \u003cbr\u003e and this is heart    \u003cbr\u003e ‘mele oa bobeli\u003cbr\u003e root body    \u003cbr\u003e year body    \u003cbr\u003e blood body    \u003cbr\u003e time body    \u003cbr\u003e too many body    \u003cbr\u003e fight body    \u003cbr\u003e wound body    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e naha\u003cbr\u003e not to die alone    \u003cbr\u003e refugee bones    \u003cbr\u003e mantsoe    \u003cbr\u003e before the next one    \u003cbr\u003e aragonda out of battle    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e secheso\u003cbr\u003e passage    \u003cbr\u003e mollo    \u003cbr\u003e marriage distress signal    \u003cbr\u003e church womxn    \u003cbr\u003e the wailers    \u003cbr\u003e hush now baby    \u003cbr\u003e close    \u003cbr\u003e the handmaid’s psalm    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e popelo\u003cbr\u003e gray mountain    \u003cbr\u003e sunset    \u003cbr\u003e sunrise    \u003cbr\u003e moonlight    \u003cbr\u003e starlet    \u003cbr\u003e to be wind    \u003cbr\u003e river border bosoms    \u003cbr\u003e the purge i    \u003cbr\u003e drought    \u003cbr\u003e the flood    \u003cbr\u003e the purge ii    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e bolokoe\u003cbr\u003e peppermint girl    \u003cbr\u003e hungry belly universe    \u003cbr\u003e those hungry girls    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e pheko\u003cbr\u003e aragonda    \u003cbr\u003e not to forget    \u003cbr\u003e grandmother’s marriage    \u003cbr\u003e to torch    \u003cbr\u003e apology to sara    \u003cbr\u003e the patch up    \u003cbr\u003e the rot the peace    \u003cbr\u003e where does love go    \u003cbr\u003e the hunger    \u003cbr\u003e not to love you    \u003cbr\u003e baleful heart    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e phupjane\u003cbr\u003e april    \u003cbr\u003e phato    \u003cbr\u003e may wrists    \u003cbr\u003e wait    \u003cbr\u003e end ballade    \u003cbr\u003e roof top blue    \u003cbr\u003e end haunt    \u003cbr\u003e body over water    \u003cbr\u003e end year    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e li teboho    \u003cbr\u003e glossary    ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409230274903,"sku":"9781496219602","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496219602.jpg?v=1730506055","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mamaseko-9781496219602","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}